COTABATO CITY — A newly created Bangsamoro municipality on Monday received a new patient transport vehicle (PTV), medical and food supplies for pregnant women and malnourished children from the office of the Health minister of the Bangsamoro region.

Bangsamoro Health Minister Kadil M. Sinolinding, Jr. led the turnover of the ambulance and supplies, procured through the Transitional Development Impact Fund, to the Mayor of Kapalawan, Norman C. Enalang.

Kapalawan is a municipality in the Special Geographic Area in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao.

Mr. Enalang and Engco G. Dalid, chairman of Barangay Manarapan in Kapalawan, separately told reporters on Tuesday, that the turnover of the PTV was part of the medical outreach mission of Mr. Sinolinding.

Mr. Enalang said a medical service team composed of medics and volunteers from peace advocacy groups also distributed rice and other food supplies to marginalized families in Barangay Manarapan.

The outreach team had also provided 70 elderly residents with free reading glasses and had scheduled 19 others for cataract and pterygium surgical procedures that Mr. Sinolinding will oversee.

“We are grateful to their team. The patient transport vehicle we now have will boost the emergency response capability of our virtually infant local government unit,” Mr. Enalang said.

A 39-year-old mother, Sepe D. Atong, and her 15-year-old daughter, Farhata, had separately said that the PTV will hasten the transport of sick Kapalawan residents to hospitals in nearby towns in Cotabato province. — John Felix M. Unson

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